Historian Daniel Czitrom: JFK far more complicated than Camelot

As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination
nears, a noted historian and expert on Kennedy's White House tenure
urges the public to shift its focus from the myth to the man.

Daniel Czitrom, a history professor at Mount Holyoke College
in South Hadley and co-author of "Out of Many: A History of the
American People," said Kennedy made marked turnabouts during his
presidency – particularly around Cold War diplomacy and the civil rights
movement.

Somehow though, Czitrom contends the nuances of Kennedy's presidency
get lost in the glitz and lore, largely because of the simultaneous
explosion of television as the go-to medium for news and entertainment,
where the lines continue to be blurred....